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TL;DR

Upgrade using aur/yay might take very long and works inefficiently.

Upgrade using aur/paru requires the -d flag.

This is not my fault.

Note to the lovers of AUR helpers : It looks like dependency resolution is a complex topic. Despite all package relations being properly declared in the Flutter packages, most AUR helpers seem to have trouble resolving the dependency chain between the package bases aur/flutter and aur/flutter-artifacts-google-bin. This is not my fault and I cannot do anything about it.

It looks like the initial installation works fine using aur/paru. Sadly aur/paru does not reach at building updates for the package without additional flags. Please use paru -Syud (whereas the -d is the relevant flag) to upgrade the package.

On the other hand aur/yay properly reaches at both installing and updating this package, even though it builds the package 15 times (!!!) again and again.

If you use aur/paru, consider to simply execute pacman -R flutter && pacman -Rns flutter to clean up the previous installation of both package bases.

• https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2413
• https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1173

If you build both package bases using makepkg -sfC and later on install all build outputs using pacman -U, both the installation and the updates work like a charm.

I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, but sadly there's nothing I can do about this.

Huge update to the Flutter AUR package :

The previous implementation basically did a user installation of Flutter - downloaded the custom Dart SDK, CI artifacts from Chromium CI and had to be kept in user R/W access in order to have the Flutter Cache Manager working.

These times are now over - a clean and (almost) completely rewritten PKGBUILD which now uses clean dependency declarations, system Dart and Gradle and for sure no more user R/W installation directory.

This AUR entry is now a split package. Installing aur/flutter will still bundle the entire toolchain you knew from before. The other way round, if you don't need everything - e.g. when depending on Flutter as a build dependency in another package, you can choose to only depend on what you need.

The following split packages are available :

• flutter : meta package containing all other split packages

• flutter-common : the common files for Flutter needed for all use cases

• flutter-devel : your option of choice as a developer - ships the Flutter tool and all required templates to e.g. create a new project

• flutter-tool : The pure Flutter tool. Use as depends to build your package.

• flutter-target-linux : The Flutter Linux build files. Use as depends to build your package.

• flutter-target-web : The Flutter web build files. Use as depends to build web apps (e.g. fluffychat-web does this).

• flutter-target-android : The Flutter Android build files. Use if you want to develop Android apps.

• flutter-gradle : The Flutter Gradle wrapper. Populated from system Gradle.

• flutter-intellij-patch : a tiny patch to make the IntelliJ Flutter plugin work with the new package.

• flutter-material-fonts-google-bin : Mandatory fonts package, planned to have a system-installed drop-in replacement soon.

• flutter-engine-common-google-bin : Shared part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-sky-engine-google-bin : Flutter sky engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-engine-linux-google-bin : Linux part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-engine-web-google-bin : Web part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-engine-android-google-bin : Android part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-gradle-google-bin : The Flutter Gradle wrapper - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-dart-google-bin : The Flutter original Dart SDK - downloaded from Google servers. This is helpful if the extra/dart package is not available in the right version on your distro or remix.

Stay tuned for non google-bin versions of the engine, they are in coming !

Since almost everything is written from scratch and heavy patches are applied to use the system packages as dependencies, there might still be bugs occurring. Please report them otherwise I can't fix them !

@btimofeev: flutter needs to be run as root, or you can use a hook like mine (flutter-group-pacman-hook) to declare a group having the permissions to use it (it defaults to fultterusers group as it is the example in the PKGBUILD)

flutter doctor ~/mkdir: cannot create directory '/opt/flutter/bin/cache': Permission denied

@hack.augusto my trick is flutter-group-pacman-hook package, but it will throw some warning when upgrading flutter. The package adds a pacman hook that will apply the "right" rights on /opt/flutter. You can define whatever group you want it applied to, but defaults to flutterusers.

git and bash are required, and should be moved to regular dependencies (and unzip added). And I think dart should be removed altogether, as flutter vends its own (custom) version of the dart sdk.

@hack.augusto A package must not use local users in building, the app itself should use a local config for its usage, so it's not something that should be changed in the PKGBUILD. Other packages like npm, go or python are installed as root and to install specific adds, they need to be installed as root (or even be installed using other AUR package). Flutter is more recent that those other packages but I think that this is the way to install adds in the future.

Thanks for the PKGBUILD!

I'm not found of the idea of running flutter as root, maybe the package could create the flutterusers group by default?

These are the lines I added to my local package:

chown -R :flutterusers "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
chmod -R g+w  "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"

Yes, we should add unzip as a dependency, it's listed as one of the system requirements https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/linux

Looks like flutter is requiring unzip to download packages (It throwed me errors about this when automatically installing dart for example). I don't know if we should add it to the dependencies...

opt/flutter/bin/internal/update_dart_sdk.sh: ligne 93: unzip : command not found

@Ionaowna, did you install all four Android SDK packages?

Hm, I've installed android-sdk, yet flutter doctor doesn't seem to like it:

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, v1.17.1, on Linux, locale en_US.utf8)
[✗] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices
    ✗ ANDROID_HOME = /opt/android-sdk
      but Android SDK not found at this location.